Music and its Lovers - An Empirical Study of Emotional and Imaginative Responses to music

Vernon Lee was the pseudonym of the British writer Violet Paget (1856 - 1935). She is remembered today primarily for her supernatural fiction and her work on aesthetics. An early follower of Walter Pater, she wrote over a dozen volumes of essays on art, music and travel. The English writer and translator Montague Summers described Vernon Lee as "the greatest [...] of modern exponents of the supernatural in fiction." E. F. Bleiler has claimed that "Lee's stories are really in a category by themselves. Intelligent, amusingly ironic, imaginative, original, they deserve more than the passing attention that they have attracted". Neil Barron described the contents of Lee's collection Hauntings thus "The stories are powerful and very striking, among the finest of their kind."

This book contains Vernon Lee¿s 1933 study on responses to music, "Music And Its Lovers - An Empirical Study Of Emotional And Imaginative Responses To Music". The study consists of twenty-six questions on topics ranging from perceived meaning to associations and memories, the results and analysis of which make up this volume. This intriguing investigation will appeal to those with keen interest in music and music theory, and it is not to be missed by collectors of antiquarian literature of this ilk. Vernon Lee was the pen-name of the British author Violet Paget (1856 - 1935), who is best remembered for her supernatural novels and her work on aesthetics. Many old texts such as this are increasingly rare and expensive, and it is with this in mind that we are republishing "Music And Its Lovers" now in an affordable, modern edition - complete with a specially commissioned new biography of the author.